may it be love, wealth, or happiness each is a symbol for what people want. In The Great

Gatsby the American Dream is dirge. That is to say that the dream is a full of grief.

One idea is the novel shows the carelessness and lack of morals of this period. It has many examples of the living style of the people like, the glamour of Gatsby's life and the bitterness and pointlessness of the his friends and Gatsby?s ableness to commit criminal acts show the time people were living in. Represented in another way, The Great Gatsby, also describes how the American dream can fail.

The American dream is shown as a failure in the view that American political ideas conflict with

So The Great Gatsby basically shows the American dream comes with the loss of morals and values. No matter if you have some things, as in the case of the Buchanans, filled with material comforts and luxuries, but even with all this was empty without purpose since they had no hopes and dreams to give purpose to their life. These people had nothing to strive for. When saying this novel was a dirge for the American dream it was correct since basically the American dream can never be achieved and it?s failure is unavoidable.

the ways that people actually lived in their social classes. Mostly because the American political system is based on that no one is higher than another class and every one is equal. Despite discrimination still exists and the classes are still very distant from each o

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